The Keeper of Happy Endings

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yet understand. And then one day, Maman explained. Every soul creates an echo. Like a fingerprint or signature that becomes infused in the things around us. Who we are. Where we belong. What we’re meant to bring to the world. No two echoes are alike. They are ours and ours alone. But they’re incomplete—one half of a perfect whole. Like a mirror without a reflection. And so each echo is constantly seeking its other half, to complete itself. That is what we look for in a reading, a sign that the lovers’ echoes are a match.” The story comes to us from the first person perspectives of Soline in 1941 and 1985, and from the third person perspective of Rory in 1985. The book unfolds across multiple timelines: both Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II in the 1940s and Boston in the 1980s. The story follows two women both dealing with devastating losses and heartbreak after fate keeps them from their true loves.

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Rory received a Roussel wedding dress from her fiancé before the war, but he was captured, and has not come home. Or has he? What spell was cast for her? Although the 1943 setting in France certainly had some very serious and heartbreaking elements in it, given what was going on in France at that point in time in history, there was still a heartwarming element to the story which stayed with me through the entire book. Do you feel like the magic was enough to explain the coincidence of Soline and Rory finding each other?Quill says: A soul-stirring story of loss, grief, stressful experiences, complicated matters of the heart, and the indomitable human spirit. The story is told from the perspectives of Soline and Rory. Soline tells her story in the present tense, and Rory tells her story in the past tense. The chapters are labeled with either Soline or Rory, the date, and the location. At the beginning of the prologue and chapters devoted to Soline, the author includes a quote that ties in beautifully with the subject matter. Davis provides the translation for French words and phrases used in the story. The author created a great mix of believable characters, whether they are prone to positive or negative behaviors. The use of sensory language makes readers feel as if they have traveled into the same place as the characters and are experiencing everything along with them. Davis captures readers’ attention at the beginning and compels them to keep reading.

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I absolutely LOVED this book. What’s not to like - Paris, couture, second chances, family dynamics, and subtle magic? My first introduction to this author and I’ve already placed her on my ‘auto buy’ list. Want to thank NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing for this uncorrected- proof. This file has been sent to me for an honest professional review. All this changes in the blink of an eye when Soline loses everything she holds dear due to World War ll. Books are feelings,” he replied simply. “They exist to make us feel. To connect us to what’s inside, sometimes to things we don’t even know are there.” Dreams are like waves, babe. You have to wait for the right one to come along, the one that has your name on it. And then when it does, you”What forms is a special friendship between the women despite the forty year age difference. Fate has brought them together, it was their destiny. Unlike my usual experience, both the contemporary and the historical timelines appealed to me equally. Also, the two storylines begin independently but merge pretty well. La Tisserand de sort are not only dressmakers, but Spell Weavers that craft spells and sew them into wedding dresses. When Rory sees Soline’s dress shop for lease, she feels it has been waiting for her to open her art gallery. Soline Roussel is well schooled in the business of happy endings. For generations her family has kept an exclusive bridal salon in Paris, where magic is worked with needle and thread. It’s said that the bride who wears a Roussel gown is guaranteed a lifetime of joy. But devastating losses during World War II leave Soline’s world and heart in ruins and her faith in love shaken. She boxes up her memories, stowing them away, along with her broken dreams, determined to forget.

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The Keeper of Happy Endings is the latest book by Barbara Davis, just published on October 1, 2021. Barbara Davis is a new author for me. I just finished reading this book and it was the first one written by her that I’ve personally read.The Keeper of Happy Endings is the story of Soline, the owner of a bridal salon in Paris. The dresses her family has made for generations are supposed to bring a lifetime of joy to those who wear them. Tragedy strikes when World War II happens, and Soline’s life is forever changed. I just loved this little gem. It somehow sang all the right notes for me. I found it quietly entrancing. I love it when the theme of magic is so subtle, and done extremely well. That it's just sort of quietly sewn into the hem of the story as an underlying wisp or echo.